[R-pkg-devel] macos x86 oldrel backups?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Hi Simon,

On 5 December 2023 at 23:17, Simon Urbanek wrote:
| The high-sierra build packages are currently not built due to hardware issues. The macOS version is so long out of support by Apple (over 6 years) that it is hard to maintain it. Only big-sur builds are supported at this point. Although it is possible that we may be able to restore the old builds, it is not guaranteed. (BTW the right mailing list for this is R-SIG-Mac).

Interesting.  And I see at mac.r-project.org the statement

   [...] As of R 4.3.0 we maintain two binary builds:

   - big-sur-x86_64 build supports legacy Intel Macs from macOS 11 (Big Sur) and higher
   - big-sur-arm64 build supports arm64 Macs (M1+) from macOS 11 (Big Sur) and higher

   We are no longer building binaries for macOS versions before 11 (as they
   are no longer supported by Apple).

so it is official that r-oldrel on macOS is no more for now? So we do not
have to worry about compilation standards lower than 11.0?  Do I have that
correct? 

Dirk
not on r-sig-mac, appreciative of any hints here as that is what we created the list for
 
| Cheers,
| Simon
| 
| 
| 
| > On 5/12/2023, at 09:52, Jonathan Keane <jkeane using gmail.com> wrote:
| > 
| > Thank you to the CRAN maintainers for maintenance and keeping the all
| > of the CRAN infrastructure running.
| > 
| > I'm seeing a long delay in builds on CRAN for r-oldrel-macos-x86_64.
| > I'm currently interested in Arrow [1], but I'm seeing many other
| > packages with similar missing r-oldrel-macos-x86_64 builds (possibly
| > all, I sampled a few packages from [2], but didn't do an exhaustive
| > search) for an extended period.
| > 
| > It appears that this started between 2023-10-21 and 2023-10-22. It
| > looks like AMR [3] has a successful build but xlcutter does not [4]
| > and all the packages I've checked after 2023-10-22 don't have an
| > updated build for r-oldrel-macos-x86_64
| > 
| > Sorry if this is scheduled maintenance, I tried to find an
| > announcement here and on r-project.org but haven't yet found anything
| > indicating this.
| > 
| > [1] - https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_arrow.html
| > [2] - https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/available_packages_by_date.html
| > [3] - https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/AMR/index.html
| > [4] - https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xlcutter/index.html
| > 
| > -Jon
| > 
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